Pindar famous quotes

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection
-- Pindar

#Reality #Affection #Given

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
-- Pindar

#Silence #Silent

Words have a longer life than deeds.
-- Pindar

#Deeds #Longer Life

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
-- Pindar

#Inspiration #Genius #Natural

To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
-- Pindar

#Endurance #Way #Bears

Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.
-- Pindar

#Heart #Men #Joy

Yet that man is happy and poets sing of him who conquers with hand and swift foot and strength.
-- Pindar

#Running #Men #Feet

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen
-- Pindar

#Wise #Men #Giving

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
-- Pindar

#Wisdom #Yield #Self

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
-- Pindar

#Healing #Men #Silence

Learn what you are and be such.
-- Pindar

#Learning

War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.
-- Pindar

#Sweet #Latin #War

Water is the best of all things.
-- Pindar

#Water

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.
-- Pindar

#Moving #Sea #Voice

There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
-- Pindar

#Happiness #Joy #Road To Happiness

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
-- Pindar

#Soul #Limits #Immortal

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
-- Pindar

#Humility #Humble #Pride

The noblest of the elements is water
-- Pindar

#Water #Elements

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
-- Pindar

#Childhood #Age #Immortality

May God .. let me strive for attainable things.
-- Pindar

#Acceptance #May #Strive

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity
-- Pindar

#Beautiful

Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.
-- Pindar

#Dream #Sunshine #Men

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
-- Pindar

#Speech #Immortality #Said

War is sweet to those who never tried it.
-- Pindar

#Sweet #War

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
-- Pindar

#Joy #Waiting #Vices

Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
-- Pindar

#Success #Achievement #Effort

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
-- Pindar

#Success #Heart #Achievement

The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.
-- Pindar

#Mother #Men #Differences

Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
-- Pindar

#Time #Change For The Better #Eternity

My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
-- Pindar

#Beauty #Splendor #Strive

With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
-- Pindar

#Mind #Should

Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.
-- Pindar

#Trust #Eye #Joy

Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
-- Pindar

#Success #Men #Hands

Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
-- Pindar

#Silence #Deeds #Noble Deeds

To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.
-- Pindar

#Timeliness #Occasions

We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
-- Pindar

#Dream #Men #Shadow

Convention is the ruler of all.
-- Pindar

#Authority #Conventions #Rulers

The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
-- Pindar

#Light #Shining #Afar

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
-- Pindar

#Men #Silence #Silence Is

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
-- Pindar

#Truth #Tongue #Anvils

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
-- Pindar

#Envy #Mind #Empty

The present will not long endure.
-- Pindar

#Long #Endure #Difficult

Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
-- Pindar

#Lying #Action #Ends

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
-- Pindar

#Favors #Littles #Looks

War is sweet to them that know it not.
-- Pindar

#Sweet #War

Law , the king of all mortals and immortals.
-- Pindar

#Kings #Law

Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
-- Pindar

#Men #Righteous

A good deed hidden in silence dies.
-- Pindar

#Silence #Deeds #Good Deeds

In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.
-- Pindar

#Sweet #Flower #Lovely

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any person lies in action.
-- Pindar

#Lying #Tests #Speech

Men are the dreams of a shadow.
-- Pindar

#Dream #Men #Shadow

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
-- Pindar

#Wisdom #Witness #Stills

Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
-- Pindar

#Night #Fire #Water

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
-- Pindar

#Men #Skills #Path

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
-- Pindar

#Teacher #Teaching #Men

Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
-- Pindar

#Deeds

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
-- Pindar

#Wise #Wisdom #Men

Sweet is war to those who know it not.
-- Pindar

#Sweet #War

Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.
-- Pindar

#Mother #Horse #Queens

The test of any man lies in action.
-- Pindar

#Lying #Men #Tests

Envy bestrides praise.
-- Pindar

#Envy #Praise

Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
-- Pindar

#Fall #Men #Growing

Even genius is tied to profit.
-- Pindar

#Money #Genius #Profit

I will be small in small things, great among great.
-- Pindar

#Small Things

It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.
-- Pindar

#God #Men #Eagles

If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
-- Pindar

#Thinking #Men #Deception

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
-- Pindar

#Death #Moving #Men

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
-- Pindar

#Ambition #Hunting #Wings

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
-- Pindar

#Peace #Light #Anvils